Chapter 1750 Crown [7]

Chapter 1750 Crown [7]

Yuna had stealth aiding her. She was able to move through crowds of enemies unnoticed and pick them off one by one to give herself some leeway.

However, Juno and Valerie only had one thing to rely on. As someone who used fire, Juno's fight against the Liqua Clan geniuses was the same as August's fight against Raphael. He could win against all of them as long as he could produce powerful laws.

On Valerie's side, water was naturally supportive of wood. Technically, they wouldn't be able to harm her as long as she used their laws to enhance her own. Of course, the Liqua Clan's water was acidic and incompatible with life, but Valerie could dissect the essence of the law and find the pure essence of water within, destabilizing their attacks and empowering her own.

Obviously, that was just as hard as it sounded. Valerie knew what she needed to do. It was easy to theorize about how to defeat these people.

Still, they had numbers. They had strength. They had the element of surprise.

Valerie's abilities were known to the world after the heir wars. On the other hand, these geniuses, while using relatively similar techniques, had hidden skills that they could pull out to surprise the enemy.

Juno, Yuna, and Valerie were making progress at different rates, but regardless of how many geniuses they defeated, it always seemed like there were more coming. And, at the end of the line, there was Wilhelm Liqua, a man that none of them could defeat individually.

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Absolutely.

Would they all be able to reach him before he decided to target them individually?

Probably not.

Valerie had to keep his presence in mind through everything she did, but for now, she had to focus on his henchmen.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

She was in a battle with the third group she'd encountered.

The first only had two people, and the second had five. She was able to defeat them quickly because she caught them by surprise and took their lives, but if she had to actually fight them, it wouldn't have been so simple.

That was why when she met a group of ten of them, she was stuck fighting for a considerable amount of time. The environment inside the maze already resembled a forest. The entire corridor was enveloped in Valerie's domain. As she had focused on speed, she had yet to find a method to counter the water mana of the Liqua Clan. So, she was currently fighting until she discovered it.

'There are more approaching.'

Mikaela didn't have the freedom to choose how the forces in her maze were distributed. She created a structure that would separate them as much as possible, but that didn't mean they were actually separated.

There were over a hundred of them in such a small space. The groups that were separated from each other were able to find each other quickly. Especially when they weren't being hunted at a rapid pace.

The specific nature of Juno's fire, the unavoidable waves that forced each and every person in his path to take a defensive position before he even found them benefitted him immensely.

Juno could maneuver through the flames like they didn't exist, but to others, the pure weight they carried was already enough to be a threat.

This was Juno's speciality. A battle where he stood against an army with the only goal of killing as many as possible before he died himself.

'Dead.'

The enemy Juno met was already dead by the time he arrived to fight.

'Dead. Dead. Dead.'

The following three were able to stand against the flame wave, but Juno's arrival was like the call of the reaper for them.

He maneuvered around them and used the techniques he learned from his master. His arms turned into blades of plasma, and as he dashed by the geniuses in question, he got around their defenses and slaughtered them before they could recognize his presence.

People didn't know how strong Juno was, but he was someone that even August, who grew at an unbelievable rate, had to view as competition.

Juno was stronger than Valerie, stronger than Iridia or Raphael, stronger than ninety percent of the people who competed thinking they had what it took to become the dragon kingdom's Emperor.

He wasn't afraid of individual geniuses like Valerie.

But he also wasn't conserving mana at all.

Even for Juno, a person who was able to breeze through the enemies like they were nothing, this battle felt impossible.

Because, even though he was stronger...

...Juno knew that he would run out of steam before they ran out of forces.

In the end, he was only one person, wasn't he?

Infinite mana simply wasn't a possibility.

He, Valerie, and Yuna were all making different progress. Nonetheless, they were not yet losing.

As for how long that state would last, however...

In Juno's own estimates; twenty minutes at most.